Friday Catblogging

She’s Too Cool For This
Originally uploaded by Rich Renomeron.

This is Brandy, our pouty teenager, or petulant middle child.

She’s a rather vocal cat, and it’s probably my fault. Back when we first got her, and she meowed at me, I thought it would be clever to meow back, and wait to figure out that I was mocking her. Of course, she never did, and we’ve had years of delightful conversations. And when I don’t feel like “talking,” my wife turns around and says, “well, you taught her to do that.”

Oh well.

What I’d Call Useful Information

While we were out and about in the remains of Tropical Storm Ernesto earlier this evening, we heard Bob Marbourg on WTOP say something like “take a rain check” if you were trying to cross the (Chesapeake) Bay Bridge, as the traffic was backed up from Davidsonville to the bridge. He also suggested that “stopping and getting dinner and resting” would be a good idea, especially since driving over the bridge was a challenge because of the wind. So I thought it would be neat if the overhead highway signs on Route 50 would be changed to something like:

MAJOR DELAYS US 50 EAST
EXIT 16 TO BAY BRIDGE
STOP AND GET DINNER BEFORE BACKUP